Mater Christi Learning Commons: English

Guides covering various issues for study. The guides contain video, images, links and articles.

Supporting Year 12 English.

Resources to support the Year 10 study of Pygmalion

This guide identifies reviews and analyses of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, non-fiction and films on the current Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) English and Literature units.

While there is a specific focus on the VCE English and Literature texts the content will be helpful to anyone looking for hints on reading and responding to texts, or seeking links to commentaries, criticisms and plot overviews.

A great little article about how to improve your writing.

Cut and paste your work into this editor and it will give you ideas for improvements.

Will take your text and suggest different words to make your writing clearer for younger readers.

Install this extension onto chrome and it will provide you with feedback for your writing as you write!

Find all the great speeches at Speakola, all in one place.

You may wish to visit Speakola for help writing your own best man speech, or twenty-first speech, or graduation speech, or eulogy.

Watch the greats, both famous and not-so-famous, and apply their brilliance to your own speech writing and delivery.

We also hope that Speakola can become a place for people to celebrate an event, after it happens. Maybe some friends couldn't make the birthday or the memorial service? Maybe you want to link the centerpiece speech in a thank you email?

Submit the speeches from the night, and have them online for other speech lovers to enjoy and share.

For all speeches, great and small.